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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3957 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3957

To require the Director of National Intelligence to develop a strategy 
   to improve the sharing of information and intelligence on foreign 
   adversary tactics and illicit activities affecting the ability of 
 United States persons to compete in foreign jurisdictions on projects 
   relating to energy generation and storage, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2024

Mr. Warner (for himself, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Lankford, Mr. 
  Ossoff, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Cornyn) introduced the 
    following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Select 
                       Committee on Intelligence

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                                 A BILL

 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to develop a strategy 
   to improve the sharing of information and intelligence on foreign 
   adversary tactics and illicit activities affecting the ability of 
 United States persons to compete in foreign jurisdictions on projects 
   relating to energy generation and storage, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ENHANCING PUBLIC-PRIVATE SHARING ON MANIPULATIVE ADVERSARY 
              PRACTICES IN CRITICAL MINERAL PROJECTS.

    (a) Strategy Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall, 
in consultation with the heads of such Federal agencies as the Director 
considers appropriate, develop a strategy to improve the sharing 
between the Federal Government and private entities of information and 
intelligence to mitigate the threat that foreign adversary illicit 
activities and tactics pose to United States persons in foreign 
jurisdictions on projects relating to energy generation and storage, 
including with respect to critical minerals inputs.
    (b) Elements.--The strategy required by subsection (a) shall 
cover--
            (1) how best to assemble and transmit information to United 
        States persons--
                    (A) to protect against foreign adversary illicit 
                tactics and activities relating to critical mineral 
                projects abroad, including foreign adversary efforts to 
                undermine such United States projects abroad;
                    (B) to mitigate the risk that foreign adversary 
                government involvement in the ownership and control of 
                entities engaging in deceptive or illicit activities 
                pose to the interests of the United States; and
                    (C) to inform on economic espionage and other 
                threats from foreign adversaries to the rights of 
                owners of intellectual property, including owners of 
                patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and 
                other sensitive information, with respect to such 
                property; and
            (2) how best to receive information from United States 
        persons on threats to United States interests in the critical 
        mineral space, including disinformation campaigns abroad or 
        other suspicious malicious activity.
    (c) Implementation Plan Required.--Not later than 30 days after the 
date on which the Director completes developing the strategy pursuant 
to subsection (a), the Director shall submit to the congressional 
intelligence committees (as defined in section 3 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)), or provide such committees a 
briefing on, a plan for implementing the strategy.
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